[Peace] News from Neptune #435 notes

Sat Sep 21 01:32:35 UTC 2019

News from Neptune #435
A "Five Little PEPpers and How They Grew" edition
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLCa6gi0Gkw

A list of links to items referenced on the show.

David Green on "Concerns voiced about Bend the Arc" letter to the News-Gazette
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-concerns-voiced-about-bend-the-arc/article_99b2ac36-4279-5cad-8b60-892ca30dde6e.html

Belden Fields on "Bend the Arc is doing good work" replying to David Green
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-bend-the-arc-is-doing-good/article_3b4b1742-1232-5f64-b2da-7c4d5d88a1d6.html

Sherry Steigmann on "I reject group’s image of America"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-i-reject-group-s-image-of/article_a276c4c0-d26f-58db-99d3-68b0581ec4ea.html

Steven Salaita on "Except for Palestine"
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/02/except-for-palestine/

Marjorie Cohn on "The ‘Progressive Except Palestine’ Problem"
https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/06/the-progressive-except-palestine-problem/

Donna Nevel on "There is no such thing as ‘Progressive Except Palestine’"
https://mondoweiss.net/2017/01/progressive-except-palestine/

Jeffrey St. Clair on "Roaming Charges: Pompeo and Circumstance"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/roaming-charges-pompeo-and-circumstance/
which includes a quote from Eric Draitser

David Brooks on "A Brief History of the Warren Presidency"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html

Katie Halper on "Sydney Ember’s Secret Sources"
https://fair.org/home/sidney-embers-secret-sources/

Jimmy Dore interviews Katie Halper on Sydney Ember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u26Ff_KTlD4

Katie Halper & Matt Taibbi's show: Useful Idiots
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL0ooGQ0asg4upSXzZA1Oinn3ALqVCndA

Katie Halper on "Unauthorized Disclosure"
http://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/s6-episode-27-katie-halper-returns

"Unauthorized Disclosure" RSS feed
https://unauthorizeddisclosure.libsyn.com/rss

Sydney Ember on "Young Voters Still ‘Feel the Bern,’ but Not Just for 
Bernie Sanders Anymore"
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/bernie-sanders-young-voters.html

Megan Flowers on "Protesters rally at Drury Inn, call to shut down ICE"
http://www.smilepolitely.com/culture/protesters_rally_at_drury_inn_call_to_shut_down_ice/

Adalberto Toledo on "UPDATE: 200 protest at Champaign hotel where ICE 
agents said to stay"
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/update-protest-at-champaign-hotel-where-ice-agents-said-to/article_bfbc3103-a0fa-5a5e-b69b-29bae4aae7fa.html

"A Brief History of Neoliberalism" by David Harvey
ISBN-13: 978-0199283279
ISBN-10: 0199283273

Mike Doyle and Craig Rost on "Building a Welcoming Economy"
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/guest-commentary-building-a-welcoming-economy/article_859ff35b-cbd6-546f-97c5-1862fc43ab4c.html

Belt and Road Initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_and_Road_Initiative

Zaid Jilani on "As Democrats Shift Left on Palestine, 2020 Contender Kamala 
Harris Gives Off-the-Record Address to AIPAC"
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/07/kamala-harris-israel-aipac/

Maxwell Strachan on "Kamala Harris Releases Off-The-Record AIPAC Comments"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-aipac-off-the-record_n_5c734f6ae4b06cf6bb27892d

Philip Weiss on "Kamala Harris skips AIPAC conference — but AIPAC comes to 
her!"
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/03/kamala-harris-conference/

Jonathan Cook on "Israelis Have Shown Netanyahu the Door. Can He Inflict 
More Damage Before He Exits?"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/israelis-have-shown-netanyahu-the-door-can-he-inflict-more-damage-before-he-exits/

Gideon Levy's Haaretz articles
https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968119

Gideon Levy on "Israel's Election Results Prove the Center Has Won and 
Ideology Is Dead"
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/elections/.premium-israel-s-election-results-prove-that-the-center-has-won-and-ideology-is-dead-1.7863169

Democracy Now interview with Diana Buttu on "Israel’s Election Outcome 
Remains Unclear, But the “Ultimate Loser” Will Be Palestinians"
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/9/18/israeli_election_results_netanyahu_gantz

Caitlin Johnstone on "The Trump Administration Is Losing The Narrative 
Battle Over Iran"
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-trump-administration-is-losing-the-narrative-battle-over-iran-e903fdd179fb

The Real News on "Documentary “Blowout” Follows Climate Cost of Oil Boom 
from Fracking to Exports"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BSOgaODVWE -- video
https://therealnews.com/stories/documentary-blowout-follows-climate-cost-of-oil-boom-from-fracking-to-exports 
-- transcript

RT: "Saudis say oil refinery attacks ‘unquestionably sponsored by Iran’"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ--l2oTCtY

Related:
https://on.rt.com/a23k -- "We stop, you stop! Houthis offer Saudi Arabia 
mutual halt to strikes in wake of devastating oil-plant attacks"
https://on.rt.com/a21h -- "Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s Hodeidah in 
wake of refinery attacks claimed by Houthis"

Martin Chulov on "Middle East drones signal end to era of fast jet air 
supremacy"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/16/middle-east-drones-signal-end-to-era-of-fast-jet-air-supremacy

Pepe Escobar on "Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard"
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/09/article/how-the-houthis-overturned-the-chessboard/

Jonathan Cook on "Netanyahu Risks Triggering an Unwinnable War to Avoid 
Losing Election"
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/09/12/netanyahu-risks-triggering-an-unwinnable-war-to-avoid-losing-election/

Julie Wurth on "UI trustees OK Killeen's bonus, urge quick action on 
sexual-misconduct reforms"
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/ui-trustees-ok-killeen-s-bonus-urge-quick-action-on/article_9449a888-db07-11e9-99f4-ab89088eb260.html

Justine Coleman on "Trump administration says joint UNC, Duke program 
portrays Islam too positively"
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/462202-trump-admin-say-unc-duke-programs-portray-islam-too-positively

Collin Binkley on "Feds cite Islam focus in review of Duke-UNC language grant"
https://www.apnews.com/430e62044dba43daa3f2332792cd97b2

Margaret Sidney's "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2770

Five Little Peppers series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Little_Peppers

The Peppers: Mrs. Pepper ("Mamsie"), Ben (Ebenezer), Polly (Mary), Joel, 
Davie (David), and Phronsie (Sophronia)

J.B. Nicholson's notes
https://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/peace-discuss/2019-September/051263.html

-J